Lumby, B.C. area residents disappointed by lack of flood prevention help
Global News
Flooding in the Whitevale Rd. area has become a regular problem. However, residents say their attempts to get government officials to help with flood prevention have been ignored.
Flooding in the Whitevale Road area south of Lumby, B.C., has become a regular problem during the spring melt.
However, residents say their attempts to get government officials to help with flood prevention have been ignored.
During the melt, resident Terry Headington is often forced out of her home when the property is cut off by flood water.
“I don’t like it at all.”
She’s among the residents of the Whitevale Road area south of Lumby who are concerned about the nearby creek regularly spilling its banks during freshet.
The breach is near her home but the flood water also flows through fields towards other residential areas.
Headington is concerned that if the issue isn’t addressed she’ll lose more land to erosion and the water will “cause more havoc” in other areas further down Whitevale Road closer to Lumby.
Her neighbour, Keith Altwasser, points out that while creek water is currently swamping the fields and outbuildings around Headington’s house, it’s been worse.
